Learn to Code Media

The legacy media is dying, and as we've been cheering it on for years now, it's a long time coming:

• CNN is planning to wield the axe on some of its high-paid staff after dismal election ratings that cap off a disastrous period for the cable news network.

  According to an explosive new report from Puck, network executives will unleash sweeping lay-offs in a bid to save the network's flailing reputation.

  It comes after the departure of stalwart Chris Wallace, and amid reports senior stars like Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper have both been denied raises.

And not just CNN, but Comcast is looking to unload money losers:

• Comcast said it was considering spinning off its cable networks that include CNBC and MSNBC into a separate company, as the media industry grapples with a decline in traditional TV viewership due to cord-cutting by consumers shifting to streaming. 
• The potential spin-off would exclude the NBC broadcast network and the Peacock streaming service. The company, however, is interested in seeking a partner for Peacock to help grow that business, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh said on Thursday.

For those who don't know, "seeking a partner" means they're looking for someone to split the losses with so it  doesn't affect they're bottom line as badly.

They're mostly propaganda machines for  the left and that didn't work out so well for them this cycle.

Witch Hunt Continues

These morons need a hobby since the Kackler lost, so they've decided to make the CPD the target of their impotent ire:

• Residents, community activists and elected officials on Sunday called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire police officers with ties to the Oath Keepers extremist group and form a task force to address the problem.

  Those gathered at Movement on Montrose, 2951 W. Montrose in Irving Park, urged the mayor to act on the Office of the Inspector General’s recommendations for the task force and to reopen the probe into the eight officers, saying they didn’t trust the CPD investigation.

  “The OIG’s office has compared this scandal to a time in the 1960s when a CPD officer was fired for being a KKK member,” said Grace Patino of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, one of the organizers of the event. “Make no mistake, nothing about this situation is normal or should be made to feel normal.”

Unless they can prove beyond any shadow of doubt that "membership" affected the performance of duties, then it's a First Amendment issue of free association. Most if not all of the Officers signed up for or were signed up for a newsletter, attended no meetings and met with no one even suspected of a felony.

We hope they keep pushing, because at some point, they're going to make these Officers rich off taxpayer money. We'd also say they have a decent case against the media who keep publishing their names despite never being charged with wrongdoing and already cleared by investigations.

Can it Get Worse?

We noted the other day that the Washington Post and the LA Times refused to endorse the Kackler for president. Now a third lib-tarded paper has refused their endorsement - USA Today said they won't play footsie with the dems.

Can it get worse? Yep:

• Gannett, owner of the nation’s largest newspaper chain, announced that its more than 200 publications, including USA Today, will not publish presidential endorsements in the run-up to the November 5 election.

  In a statement, Gannett said that while its USA Today Network of publications nationwide will not issue presidential endorsements this year, the outlets may still endorse candidates at the state and local levels at their own discretion.

The Washington Post also announced that they have lost 200,000 subscribers due to owner Amazon Bezos clamping down on the far left wingnuts infesting his newsroom. Maybe we'll finally start seeing some of these "newspapers" go under.

Know Your Enemy

Who would have thought that a commie reporter and commie (former) CTU member would be living in wedded bliss in the same suburb that spawned Shrillary?

• Heather Cherone, the lead news reporter covering Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and its teachers' union for Chicago's PBS affiliate, is married to a former CPS teacher and union activist.

  Her husband, Michael Cherone, taught mathematics at CPS from 2001 through 2014 before leaving to go to business school. 

  While a CPS teacher, Michael Cherone was among the most prolific CTU members, street protesting and posting on social media in support of then-union president Karen Lewis as she led a Sept. 2012 strike -- the union's first since 1987--- publicly sparring with then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Politics certain makes for strange bedfellows.

Reminder

You don't hate the media enough.

SeeBS is "reporting" today that the Kackler was never the "Border Czar," but a quick scan of their own reporting shows this headline:

And their own reporters use the term "Border Czar" on countless occasions.

This isn't a one-off for the media either:

They all reported it. And now, they're lying because the Number One issue in polling recently is:

• the border / illegal immigrants

So they just lie.

Suspect Pictures?

For some reason, Channel 7 is publishing the pictures of suspects in certain cases:

The story:

• Chicago police looking for suspects wanted for a knife attack.

  Police said three males attacked a man with a knife earlier this month.

We're amazed that they assumed the suspects' genders.

Col. McCormick Weeps

The Tribune has gone full commie lately, supporting bans on free speech in foreign countries:

• Elon Musk, the eccentric, far-right billionaire behind X (formerly Twitter), SpaceX and Tesla is testing the world’s willingness to regulate the ultrarich. Billionaires, with money to burn and control over the vital industries that created their wealth, can make great friends and difficult enemies. 

  But the power that is their appeal is also the reason that governing their actions is so critical. This is even more urgent with Musk since he controls one of the most powerful information distribution mechanisms in the world.

  Brazil’s government understands this, and that is why it has been embroiled in a battle with him for months.
  

Of course, until Musk bought X/Twitter and opened up the censorship gates closed for years at the behest of governments, Musk was a hero to the leftists for all sorts of reasons.

Now he's "eccentric, far-right" for supporting free speech.

Meanwhile in Illinois, we have far-left billionaires:

We'll take Musk, for all his faults.

Good Riddance....Again

The Slum Times most racist "reporter" ever:

• Mope-rah!

She provided plenty of blog fodder over the years. 

Always the victim, never advocating for personal responsibility, she did more to keep racism alive than the klan.

She was DEI before DEI was a thing. 

Add your own insults in the comment section. Try to keep it clean like we just did.

Another Crap Headline

The Slum Times:

• 1 killed, another wounded in car-to-car shooting on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Gold Coast

Anyone ever hear of a "car-to-car shooting"? 

Drive-by....yep. 

Road rage....yep.

In those cases, the actions of an individual are the cause of the mayhem.

But car-to-car is just another leftist trick to blame the object(s) for a murder and a maiming. And a way to avoid a description of the actual offenders doing the killing.

Covering the Important Stories

You go Slum Times!

• More than a month after Mayor Brandon Johnson faced questions over why his campaign fund spent more than $30,000 on personal grooming, records show he’s continuing to pay a South Side makeup artist out of his political committee.

  In a disclosure report filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections on Friday, Friends of Brandon Johnson reported making 11 payments totaling $8,200 to Makeup Majic in April, May and June.

  That brings the total amount paid by Johnson’s campaign to the business — based in a South Side home and run by makeup artist and self-described “skincare enthusiast” Denise Milloy — to more than $36,000 in 2023 and 2024, records show.

No deep introspection on the constant drumbeat from their editorial "staff" about Trump being a fascist, racist, homophobe, enslaver of minority persons, etc. Nope, they got Conehead spending campaign funds on getting his hair did. 

How about a story on how big of a carbon footprint this waste of paper and ink might be? that would keep the greenies happy.

Just Drop It Already

It seems "reporter" Leah Hope is attempting to take up the mantle of shit-stirrer Cuck Goudie:

• A new report from Chicago's Office of Inspector General is raising concerns about alleged connections with extremist groups in the Chicago Police Department. The inspector general said not enough is being done to extract extremism and repair trust.

  "We cannot ask people to trust a police department whose members are allowed to dabble in hatred and extremism," Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said.

  Witzburg said Tuesday her recommendations to further investigate and oust officers with connections to extremist organizations have not been heeded.

Conehead and the Department counter:

• Last month, the IG recommended CPD reopen its bureau of internal affairs investigation of eight officers associated with the Oath Keepers. CPD declined, emphasizing there was a thorough investigation, and there was not evidence the accused officers actively participated in the Oath Keepers.

  And, in April, the IG suggested the city convene a task force.

  The mayor's office responded last month, saying the office is "fully committed to rooting out extremist, anti-government and bias organizations" and outlined efforts to address and prevent these issues, but did not agree to set up a task force.

There was already an investigation....a pretty thorough one from all we've been told. And the main issue is that there is no evidence - aside from being named on some mailing lists - that any officer participated in any questionable behavior while representing the CPD, on CPD property, or while being attired in a CPD uniform.

Now, if you go though assorted social media posts during the St. George of Fentanyl "protests," you can find all sorts of photographic evidence of police officers, in uniform, on duty, in police stations, actively participating in prohibited behaviors. 

Guess why that isn't an issue?

We think there are a few pics in our archives, we probably saved a few others in our records, and we know for sure that many other officers have dozens of these pictures, just in case they're needed as evidence in a politically motivated persecution of officers exercising their freedom to associate off duty.

Media Lies Again (Still)

Remember, guns are bad. Therefore increased gun ownership is bad:

• More than half of American voters -- 52% -- say they or someone in their household owns a gun, per the latest NBC News national poll.

  That's the highest share of voters who say that hey or someone in their household owns a gun in the history of the NBC News poll, on a question dating back to 1999.

  In 2019, 46% of Americans said that they or someone in their household owned a gun, per an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. And in February 2013, that share was 42%.

That article is from late 2023, but the trend hasn't changed.

But then this article was written just the other day by the Commie News Network:

• Violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States during the first three months of 2024, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.

  The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and reported rapes decreased by 25.7%. Aggravated assaults decreased during that period when compared to last year by 12.5%, according to the data, while robberies fell 17.8%.

After all, there's an election to win for president sheet-my-pants, and you can't have the electorate believing all those crime stories about blue state shitholes being overrun by illegal alien crime along with the usual suspects.

Of course, you have to read past the headline to find this little tidbit that we've written about more than once:

• The numbers released Monday were gathered from 13,719 of the just over 19,000 law enforcement agencies from across the country, according to the bureau.

So they're telling you only 72% of the story, seeing as how 28% of the law enforcement agencies didn't send in their crime numbers. And among those agencies that didn't send in crime numbers?

• New York
• Los Angeles
• Chicago

The three biggest blue city shitholes who have crime numbers that dwarf those of entire states.

But hey, crime is down nationally. Don't believe what your own eyes are telling you.

Guess Who's Loaded?

Brother, can you spare a dime?

• WLS-Channel 7 chief investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on Friday sold his six-bedroom, 6,204-square-foot French chateau-style mansion in Hinsdale for $4.05 million — slightly above his $3.995 million asking price.

  A Michigan native, Goudie, 68, joined ABC 7 in 1980 and has been ABC 7’s lead investigative reporter since 1990.

  Goudie first moved to Hinsdale in 1987 and with his late wife Teri, who died in 2022, owned three other houses in the DuPage County suburb before building the French chateau-style mansion.

Being a useless race-baiting tool for the Cook county dem party must pay dividends.

At least we know who's paying for drinks next time we see Cuck at the bar.

Media Dying....Again?

Faster please:

• Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis “told Post staffers today that the newspaper will be looking for ways to use AI in its reporting as it seeks to recoup some of the $77 million it lost last year,” reports Futurism.

  “To speak candidly: We are in a hole, and we have been for some time,” the CEO added. “This is all repairable, all doable, particularly if we do it together.”

  The far-left Post’s technology officer told everyone to expect “AI everywhere in our newsroom.” In other words, the Post is about to replace a bunch of overpaid assholes with bots.

We've been pulling for media outlets to fail for years....decades even. We thought we had a win when the Slum Times almost got buried, but they managed yet another reincarnation via some deep pocketed liberals.

We've been hoping for deep pocketed liberals to go under, too. So them spending tens of millions on a failing enterprise is a two-fer in our opinions.

Media Lies Continue

Marty Preib takes the media to task again, this time for trying to paint cops as "extremists:"

• Sun-Times reporter Tom Schuba shills for the radical left as Democratic Convention approaches

  As the Democratic convention draws closer, Chicago media outlets like the Sun-Times and WBEZ have intensified another monumental campaign of deceit.

  This latest campaign is aimed at transforming Chicago police officers into political radicals while protecting the truly extremists the Chicago media has faithfully served for decades. Toward that effort, Tom Schuba and the Sun-Times have taken a break from pushing bogus exoneration stories to devoting a collection of articles about cops being right-wing zealots, ominously entitled “Extremism in the Ranks.”

The Slum Times and WBEZ are merely left-wing rags and Schuba is just another media moron doing the bidding of the radical left, and Preib does a very good job pointing out how and when they traveled down that sinkhole.

Someone else did some explaining from a scientific starting point a few years ago and we happened to run across it again:

• Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.

  The study, led by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, analysed 40 journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and online platforms over seven months. The participants took part in tests related to their lifestyle, health, and behaviour.

  It was launched in association with the London Press Club, and the objective was to determine how journalists can thrive under stress. It is not yet peer reviewed, and the sample size is small, so the results should not be taken necessarily as fact.

  Each subject completed a blood test, wore a heart-rate monitor for three days, kept a food and drink diary for a week, and completed a brain profile questionnaire.

And they discovered that on the whole, journalists pretty much registered "borderline" at birth, ran past "moron" and cratered somewhere around "imbecile' before they went to J-school. Upon graduation, they became "idiots" and pretty much stayed there before applying to the Sun Times and WBEZ.

But go read Preib's article up top - you'll be smarter than Schuba at the very least.

Weekend Wilding Coverage

We had pointed out that not a single media outlet appeared to cover the Saturday night mayhem downtown this past weekend, and we lamented that the violence had become so commonplace (and expected) that it wasn't worthy of coverage according to the lib-tarded media.

But we discovered that someone is still out there covering it on the X / Twitter platform:

• William J Kelly twitter feed

This person is the reporter who got under Groot's skin, had his press credentials pulled and then sued her to get them back. He appears to be a bomb-thrower with some talent for digging out stories City Hall would rather no one saw.

Thanks to the reader that let us know.

Wilding is now Normal

Scanning the major media outlets and nary a mention of this weekend's wilding downtown.

Even the alternative media didn't mention it.

We guess it all went away?

• Anonymous said... Saturday night was Another shit show downtown, by Colombus & Illinois Streets . Again Mayor Conehead's [non-demonized] kids .. 60+ CPD Officers at least kept the assswipes off the street
  Of Course No comment from Fake Mayor Johnson
• Anonymous said... No coverage of the [mono-chromatic] mobs roaming downtown last night.. in prime tourist spots,,,, by any fake Chicago media.. Lets go brandon biden  

So unless someone gets shot or there's a "street takeover," it doesn't exist any more.

Good to know.

Remember, Don't Demonize

And don't ever describe the offender either (right Cuck?):

• Two men were robbed by a group of suspects armed with handguns and rifles on the Northwest Side Thursday morning, Chicago police said.

  The two victims were standing on the sidewalk in the 3500-block of West Belmont Avenue at about 3:20 a.m. when police said a black sedan approached and four armed suspects got out.

  The suspects demanded the victims' property and then they fled westbound on Belmont Avenue, police said. No one was injured and no one is in custody.

  The robbery comes amid a CPD alert detailing more than a dozen similar armed robberies over the past week across the North and Northwest sides.

That "more than a dozen" they cite?

• it's closer to twenty across the city

But don't worry, NBC doesn't describe the suspects any better than ABC did. 

But they did describe the car as "black" though, so that's something.

Slum Times Strikes Again

Airing out all sorts of unsustained allegations:

• The five Chicago police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed after his SUV was pulled over have been investigated a combined 41 times since 2019, with many of those complaints stemming from traffic stops.

Not a single sustained allegation by the way.

But this particular article doesn't once mention Dexter's previous weapon arrest. Why the double standard? If we're throwing out unsustained allegations, then a previous gun arrest deserves mention, along with alleged PPP fraud, right? Especially a gun arrest at a rather large public gathering where hundreds of innocent people (and folks) were potentially in danger!

The Slum Times also quotes the fake ACLU (All Criminals Love Us) stats regarding traffic stops:

• The American Civil Liberties Union last year filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department claiming officers make a disproportionate number of traffic stops in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.

To which we simply reply:

Cops go to where the crime is....and crime is (cough cough) disproportionate.

Graphic courtesy of HeyJackass.com

Die Already

Two  media entities that we wouldn't shed a tear over if they went under tomorrow:

• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a significant Chicago Public Media financial backer, voiced its sadness over a round of deep job cuts at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, as the organization faced pushback on social media and from a Chicago alderperson over the decision.

  The $8.2 billion foundation also expressed its continuing optimism for the merger of the two legacy journalism titles but sidestepped questions about whether it continues to support Matt Moog in his capacity as Chicago Public Media CEO.

  Moog, who announced his resignation last December and said he intends to depart the organization in August, cited financial pressures Wednesday as one justification for pink-slipping 14 people across both news organizations.

  Those cuts mean the elimination of WBEZ’s podcast unit and the conversion of the WBEZ-run Vocalo radio station — which has offered R&B, jazz and Spanish-language programming — into a streaming-only service.

  Four nonunionized Sun-Times staff members also were among those laid off.

Unfortunately, Mope-rah and the spouse abuser weren't among the layoffs.